Title in red and black; title and text enclosed within double rule border; Monaldini's woodcut Pegasus device with motto "Perennitas laudis" on title pages. Engravings: added title-page with Jesuit device; the first 14 portraits engraved by...

Title from docket on page [4]. A letter from Juan de Acuña, marqués de Casafuerte, granting the establishment of three missions in the region of Pimeria Alta to the Jesuit father Juan Antonio de Oviedo. The three missions are to be dedicated to...

A view of the garden at the residence of Paul de Longpre, with a large lattice pavilion on the left, a smaller gazebo partially visible on the right, and trees in the background. Inset in the upper right hand corner is a picture of de Longpre.

A woman in ethnic dress holding a sombrero stands near the cross at the entrance to Olvera Street, across from the Plaza. The inscription on the cross reads: El pueblo de Nuestra Señora la reina de los angeles. Felipe de Neve, September fourth,...

A woman and four children dressed in ethnic outfits are seen by the cross near vending stands at the entrance to Olvera Street, across from the Plaza. The inscription on the cross reads: El pueblo de Nuestra Señora la reina de los angeles. Felipe...

Henry Hancock was a prominent Los Angeles lawyer and surveyor. He worked as Los Angeles City Surveyor and United States Deputy Surveyor in the 1850s. Hancock surveyed most of the large ranches between Monterey and San Diego in California.